Outpost fired upon last night and kept us awake all night –and now are firing once in a while if a man shows himself at west porches. The 3.2 in. gun opened at 4 p.m. with percussion shrapnel at trenches at church –at several large “bunches o’ black” on the ridge at 2700 yds. Played a couple of rubbers of whist, Rob I beat. The niggers have their trenches shrapnel-proof, made so by covering trenches with bamboo and dirt.
Alfred Burton Welch
(September 26, 1874 — June 30, 1945). Served with Company D, 1st Washington Volunteer Infantry in the Philippines, April 30, 1898 to November 1, 1899.
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